Easy Authentic Italian Spaghetti Sauce Recipe Named Amatriciana Sauce

This Italian spaghetti sauce recipe is one of the most popular Italian sauces.

It's an easy homemade spaghetti sauce recipe calling for a fatty bacon in Italian called "Pancetta". This is the Italian sauce that you might even know as "Bucatini all'Amatriciana".

If you want to keep indeed this sauce recipe authentic as they do in "Amatrice" as I said above, avoid to use garlic, onions and carrots.

These are those ingredients that you might find in many other Italian recipes, but you'll never have with the authentic Italian spaghetti sauce recipe named "Amatriciana" sauce.

Amatriciana Sauce

Anyway, this is one of those Italian recipes that get more closer to the western food style, because unsmoked bacon is included as one basic ingredient.

So, for whom thought that Italian cooking is complicated, will find here an easy spaghetti sauce recipe than it was to be expected.

My step-by-step guidance shows you how...

Give it a try!

Ingredients: serves 4

Spaghetti all'Amatriciana

- 4 ounces (gr.100) unsmoked bacon, largely diced
- 14 ounces (gr.400) canned or fresh whole plum tomatoes, best S. Marzano quality
- 16 ounces (gr.450) Pecorino cheese
- 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- ½ cup (ml.100) white dry wine
- ½ hot chili
- salt

Preparation:

1. Bring water to a boil. Start cooking separately your spaghetti or bucatini as written on the package, and keep the pasta always "al dente"!

2. Fatty bacon is a must basic ingredient, diced in large chunks.

Italian fatty bacon "Pancetta".

Dice the bacon in large chunks.

3. Fresh or canned plum tomatoes the best are Italian S. Marzano quality. If you use fresh ones they must be very ripe, blanch to remove the peel.

Italian S. Marzano tomatoes.

Fillets of ripe S. Marzano tomatoes.

4. The wine must be white and dry, with hard grated pecorino cheese.

The best would be a dry white wine.

Grated pecorino cheese.

5. Use only extra virgin olive oil, add the bacon that you have diced before, add the ½ hot chili, and ½ cup of white dry wine.

Heat-up the olive oil.

Brown the bacon a few minutes, add the chili and wine.

6. Add the tomatoes and cook for a few minutes, add ½ of the pecorino cheese now.

Cook bacon and tomatoes.

Add ½ pecorino

7. Now it's time to add spaghetti to the pan, stir them in and sautè all together.

Yes, spaghetti with "Amatriciana" sauce are ready and this is what it would look like!

Yummy, yummy!